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yay 4:40 am ands its finished installing

 

for both, one of the options on the installer should be keep personal files and apps

 

Then as I clicked "Reply to thread" it popped up "Upgrade this PC now" or "Create media for another PC" or something like that, but then... Something happened.

See! Something happened!

Also, when I click on the windows icon on the bottom right, it hangs on "Please Wait" for a little bit and then it jumps to "Thank you for reserving your free upgrade" when it used to jump to another screen, forgot what it said tho, but it didn't hang on "Please Wait"

Everything was fine until I did the /updatenow in the CMD

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Hey!!! Something happened again! (Okay that joke is getting old XD) I did the update now thing again, but in a different way. Follow this in EXACT order and do EXACTLY what it says and it should work! Windows 10 is now downloading!

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/h...tart-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

 

I think this is the thing I was looking for in the thread but couldn't find...

I'll try it out now. I hope I know what to do with it lol

EDIT: Welp... Still in the same boat as Whippy...

The tool was much more simple than I thought, just run, update windows.

So I ran it. Eventually a purple window appeared with that fluffy windows loading animation in the top left corner area. Then it disappeared.

So I ran it again. Same thing happened, except after the loading icon, "Something Happened".

Tried it again, "Something Happened" again... Oh well.

 

Pickles! Look at my last post, I sent a link with a fix!

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Okay, new issue, windows 10 downloaded... now what?!

 

For anyone having problems trying to download Windows 10, I used these steps and its now downloading. I had to run the CMP twice before it went through.

It's online.

• Delete everything out of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
  
• In Windows Updates, Click to search for updates, leave the window open but DONT HIT SEARCH yet
  
• Right Click on the Start icon or Winkey+X, open command prompt as Admin and type "wuauclt.exe /updatenow" but DONT HIT ENTER
  
• In Windows Update, Click "search for updates"
  
• While it is searching hit enter on the command prompt
  
• You're now downloading W10

EDIT: Try the direct installer instead if you're having issues installing or getting error codes after downloading.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
You might have to refresh the page a couple times if it's getting overloaded with traffic.

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Anyone get stuck on "preparing for installation......" right after windows update downloads windows 10?

 

I just constantly get errors while downloading Windows 10

 

Do you know what errors its throwing? My Windows 10 just got done installing and its running smooth.

Smoother than windows 8.1 I love it.

 

If you check event viewer it will give you the actual error message. Whether the error message will be useful is an entirely different matter but its nice to have rather than the vague crap the GUI usually gives you like "something happened".

 

So its been 56 mins since I got 10 installed I love it as soon as you have the opportunity to upgrade to 10 do it.

If you are on 8/8.1 you will see a huge speed boost (well, at least I have noticed.)

It runs overall way more smother than what they called Windows "8/8.1" lol.

 

Win 10 on my 4 year old laptop added some much needed life to it! I really want it on my 7year old Vista desktop now...

 

Since the upgrade I also noticed lower CPU usage at idle. (I7-3770K).

 

Same here with i7 3770! Plus, the battery in my laptop does not drain faster. Nice.
MS did a good job.

 

well, i found one thing microsoft STILL hasn't fixed:



fuck you windows, i AM EVAN-PCW8\Evan

 

Something with windows 10 and the latest 64-bit chrome is the horrible lag while opening/closing or switching tabs.

 

Never had that issue on any of my rigs so dunno what there is to fix, must be local to you.

Not on the PC I was using earlier.



Although are there any outlook users here? Used someones windows 10 work laptop today (which I think was a silly idea to upgrade on a business machine) and now outlook will receive items fine but will not send any. Tries for awhile, then says sending failed, open it, "Undefined Error".

 

Hm. Edge is doing it too. If I switch between tabs too fast both browsers crash. D:

 

Maybe the windows event viewer might give you an actual error message?

 

I tried this multiple times, but nothing seemed to happen at all. No error, no download, nothing that I could see...

Anyone else having as many problems with this as I am?

 

this is actually a pretty well known "bug" with the windows permission system

it happens most often with files that are owned by either system or trusted installer

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=you+need+permission+to+delete+this+file

lots of results, i found some commandline magic to fix my problem though so good now (although windows's permission system is still crap, it's my pc, i should be able to do whatever i want (inb4 someone says something about linux, i already have it installed as part of my triple boot (W8.1, W10, and ubuntu)))